Dax Shepard recalled his long-term relationship with ex-girlfriend Briegh Morrison and how before meeting Kristen Bell he wasn’t sure he would ever find love again.
Dax Shepard wasn’t in a good place ahead of his romance with Kristen Bell.
The Armchair Expert host recently reminisced with his ex-girlfriend Briegh Morrison about their nine-year romance and how the end of their relationship left him hesitant to love again.
“The breakup was manageable, but for a while I did think well, I’ll never be in love with someone like that again in that way,” Dax told Briegh in the Oct. 21 episode of his Mom’s Car YouTube series. “I had a deep fear, like, I don’t think I’ll ever feel the way I felt about Briegh with anybody. I was quite scared of that.”
For Dax, 50, while he couldn’t see love in his future, he admitted he wished it for his ex—who found it with Marvel executive Brad Winderbaum.
“I felt very disoriented for a while,” he shared. “Even though we were in an open relationship, I never felt single. What was hugely important to me from the moment we broke up was, I pray she meets someone she falls in love with.”
“I just thought about it a lot,” he continued. “I was so hopeful that you found someone that you loved a lot again. And I just remember being so happy about Brad.”
For Breigh’s part, she was equally enthusiastic when Dax found love with Kristen—whom he married in 2013—and was adamant about not letting her friendship with her ex get in the way of his new romance.
“I definitely felt Kristen I didn’t want to step on,” Briegh said. “I didn’t want to step on Kristen’s toes.”
And Dax—who shares daughters Lincoln, 12, and Delta, 11, with the Nobody Wants This actress—admitted his wife was taken back by their bond at first.
“She had initially was like, ‘This is really wild. I’m not friends with any of my exes. I don’t hang out with any,’” he recalled Kristen saying. “And I’m like, ‘I’m friends with all mine pretty much.’”
Indeed, part of the reason Dax’s bond with his ex is so strong is because he believes she and Kristen share some of the same qualities.
“Something that you guys [both] have that I value so much is I think you two above any other people I’ve ever met, you have your opinions and your position, but you’re really able to listen to another point of view and consider it and integrate it,” the Parenthood alum, who recently marked 12 years of marriage with Kristen, shared. “Neither of you guys are, like, stuck. You’re very fluid. For me it’s an imperative quality”
“I admire both of you so much, and I realize that’s a rare thing to get in a partner, and I like you so much,” he added. “You’re just one of the greats of all time. I’m glad our lives worked out so well.”
To look back on Dax and Kristen’s romance, keep reading…
“Who is this sparkly creature?’” Dax recalled thinking when he met Kristen at a friend’s birthday dinner in 2007. After running into each other again two weeks later at a hockey game they decided to accept fate and start dating.
The old saying rings true for this couple, who both had doubts to go along with the butterflies early on. Dax said his playboy past didn’t go unnoticed by “good girl” Kristen, who told Good Housekeeping, “We’re the Paula Abdul video ‘Opposites Attract’ personified.”
The two got engaged in late 2009 while co-starring in When In Rome together. They weren’t immune to the romance of the Italian city and just like in their movie, the couple fell under a real life love spell.
In an interview about her relationship with Dax in 2010, Kristen shared,”A snuggle party can fix anything—it’s true.”
The couple got married in a simple ceremony at a Beverly Hills courthouse in 2013 after announcing their plans to wed on Twitter earlier in the year. Their choice to forego an extravagant wedding made their love story even more romantic to fans.
Bell gave birth to their first child, a girl they named Lincoln, in March 2013. Fiercely protective of her daughter’s privacy, Kristen quipped, “I would really like to see the aftermath of the first person who tries to take a picture of Lincoln.”
Parents of Two
In December 2014 the couple had their second daughter, Delta.
In an interview with Good Housekeeping in May 2015 Kristen shared that she and her hubby attend couples counseling when they need to work through an issue saying, “Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.”
Kristen Bell finally joined Instagram in 2016 and inaugurated her account with a closeup of her and her husband sharing a kiss.
The two looked just as in love as ever at the premiere of Dax’s new movie Chips in March 2017.
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They two celebrated the 2017 Fourth of July holiday in style.
The pair continues to prove that they’re just like any other couple. They openly share that they go to marriage counseling and sometimes fight. However what remains constant is their respect for each other. Kristen shared her marriage advice on Instagram writing, “Loving someone despite their faults, failings, or character defects, is the most powerful loving thing you can do. Rejoice in what makes the other person happy and allow them their individual interests.”
A couple that isn’t afraid to be silly together is a couple that stays together. The pair often shares hilarious shots on social media including when they dressed up for a Peaky Blinders themed birthday party. Of course, they killed it.
Everybody Wants This
Kristen celebrated Dax’s 50th birthday in 2025 with a carousel of photos showcasing a sampling of their affectionate moments.
“Happy birthday to the most affectionate 220 lbs man that ever [existed],” she wrote. “I cannot imagine life without you.”
Source: www.eonline.com